bad_mojo (DayZ)

To the people who think everyone would end up dead... why aren't all tents found and emptied every night? What's to stop people from logging out on a low population server that might get only 10 people online in the next 8 hours. Is it that hard to hide a sleeping bag in 225km2?

Maybe have the sleeping bag disappear 8-24 hours after it's placed, so people who don't return the next day aren't punished? You're focused too much on this being a punishment. They're not going to add a system that kills most people. Nor do I want that system. I just dislike logging out, I've been in groups and when someone leaves for the night it just seems wrong in that setting. I've even considered laying in a forest one night to see if anyone kills me. But, then I would need to wake up every hour and put more wood piles on the fire :D or my character will freeze to death. Sleeping is a big factor in real life survival. Lack of sleep can really affect your ability to survive. Perhaps instead of outright killing of a player in DayZ, it could have other effects. Like if you neglect to camp and leave for more than an hour, all your icons are flashing when you come back. 5k blood, starving, dehydrated, freezing to death, and a chance of catching cold/flu. If you make camp and use a sleeping bag, you come back just hungry, thirsty & cold. If you deploy a shelter you come back hungry. Really I'm just suggesting sleep be a factor in dayz, I don't care how it happens, I have faith in Rockets judgement.

I would love to see a hardcore mode in the standalone. The thing with different servers, well, the body would stay on the server you camped at, but you could rejoin any server and it would disappear. I don't think it matters that you wouldn't pop into existence beside your sleeping bag, what matters is that your player was vulnerable on a server for the hours that you were not playing.

Get out of the mindset that 10k blood means 75% healthy. You were bitten multiple times by someone infected with the rage virus, fix yourself to 12000 blood before you put yourself at risk again.

It's actually kind of funny that you see removing an unrealistic part of DayZ as punishment. What if I turned your argument around on you... why am I being punished constantly for playing so often? People that don't have as much time to play as I do are rewarded with magical security. I suggested this because when I started playing DayZ you had to login and eat everyday or end up dying of hunger/thirst when you came back. I like this idea that even if I stopped playing, the game kept going, it created the idea of a living virtual world. So, I thought perhaps Rocket could build on that with a sleep mechanic. I understand the concern about this suggestion, if we implemented this tonight on the mod, it would ruin a lot of peoples games. But, if something like this was built into the game over time, people would adapt and adjust their game accordingly. We already have tents full of gear sitting there for the taking, I don't really see the issue with having players sitting there for the taking/killing. People can hide tents, why can't they hide a sleeping player?

Okay, but, if I die and leave the server, does my body take up a slot? I don't think so. When someone sleeps, a sleeping bag is deployed with a body in it, if the sleeping bag is 'killed' the hive is told that you died. The killer can then access your inventory in the sleeping bag. Or maybe even access your inventory without being killed, so you can rob sleeping people.

Maybe, or they could form or join a group that will defend the campsite.

Not really, if they slept in a vulnerable spot, they'd be killed/looted pretty quickly.

You don't build a game mechanic for magically keeping your shit safe while you're offline, you build a group who can keep your shit safe while you're offline.

I stopped reading after you said fixing tents was a mistake. Alpha bro....alpha.

Yeah true enough, a pack with over 20 slots would hold 2 rifles. But, when I see someone giving out two bizons, I'm suspecious, especially if he's giving out first aid wearing a ghillie suit and only wielding an axe. I must admit i didnt watch the whole video, I was basing the 2 bizons on the comment from OP.

He's a hacker, you can't carry two main weapons while having the hatchet equipped.

I think it's overly complicated to name the ammunition based on the weapon. For example, the 'DMR mag' isn't only used in the DMR but also the M14. Also, the AKM and AK use different sized rounds, 5.45 versus the 7.62, but people get them mixed up constantly, they see AK and expect it to work in an AKM. I think a more logical way of naming them would benefit the learning curve of new players. Instead of "DMR mag" it could be "7.62 NATO" Instead of "AK mag" call it "5.45 mag" Maybe even work the magazine capacity into the name... "30rnd 5.45" for example. It's a small cosmetic change, but I think it would further simply things for the player.

Could it be in the factory? (OP's location)

I'm sure standalone will have a much better system, which is why I kept this suggestion a simple name change. People will play the mod, we shouldn't dismiss improving it. @Toilet, this would actually make it more difficult for the people who don't know their weapons. It wouldn't be as easy as matching the two names. It would educate people who don't think there's any difference between what the rounds an AKS and an AKM fires. One thing that always bugged me about the system we have, in my mind 'AK' means the popular AK47, which is 7.62, but in DayZ the AK mag is a 5.45 magazine that goes into the AK74s. At the very least, can the 'AK mag' be changed to 'AK74 mag'?

That was actually really fun last night. I've never seen so many players in one area of the map before. I must have seen 30 or more in a matter of minutes. I was shot on two occasions and patched up by random people(it pays to be vocal) before trying to leave the area and getting gunned down at the gas station towards cherno. When I respawned (at the airfield) I tried to run back to my body but ran into a someone who asks "are you badmojo? i found your body" I said yes and he said he had gas for one of the (50 or so) helicopters. So we jumped in and took off, after flying over a couple fuel tanks I realized he had no clue where he was going or what he was doing, oh well, he finally said "how do i make this thing go down?" and right then the engine cuts out, sadly he didn't know how to autorotate. It was chaos and everything was hacked, but the momories I will take away are legit and will last a lifetime.

Standalone is still alpha?

Are you friends in real life? If so, go on his PC and download a script with no bypass and run it. Or just replace his key with a banned one. Or smash his monitor with your fist, or his face?

I would suggest scanning for viruses/trojans if you've been "innocently banned".

I used to play exclusively on an Expert level server with no 3rd person, death messages, kill counts, or any other lame ass assistance. But, now the only servers with people on them are regular/vet with all the cheese.

I rode across the dam with a bicycle, took forever to get across. I'll never take another vehicle on it.

Something doesn't look right there. Do you have a source on this? I thought that was changed for broken bones, not unconsciousness. I don't see anything about this in the change log.

Second or third time you got hit? Wouldn't that mean you have less than full blood? I'm not calling you a liar, but I have NEVER been knocked out by a zombie anywhere near full blood. I'd suggest taking a video of this, because most people will simply not believe you, or think you're exaggerating the facts. For example, if you run into a building with 12k blood and get hit twice, those hits might lower your blood level enough to where that third hit will knock you out. So technically you did have full blood before the attack, but actually you had much lower blood when the third hit happened. Just throwing that out there.

Nah, I have lots of fun running away from people like you. When I say you accept your death, I mean make your best effort to get away, but if he hits you, that's life, you die.